Dear friends,
It's been years since I've posted. So many changes. An unexpected divorce. Creating a new home out of the old one. Going back to work as a teacher, leaving the teaching profession, entering graduate school, beginning the work of mitigating harm caused by global warming. The dislocations that we have all experienced: the threats to democracy, the pandemic, civil unrest, the exposure of huge inequities and suffering that many of us didn't want to see. Here in the Pacific Northwest, toxic air, wildfire smoke, flooding - what we call in the Emergency Management field, "weather weirding." Snuggling into familial, spiritual, academic, and activist communities. Restoring my health, mental and physical.
And six years of sobriety, which have made everything else in my life possible.
I have a lot to share with you all. All the emotions, among them: frustration, anger, fear, and grief; humor, love, gratitude and optimism. A lot of opinions. Learning and curiosity.
I'm fond of quoting Jed Bartlet in West Wing, and here goes,
"What's next?"
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